Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
386109000 | Compressing in recording or decompressing in reproducing | 76 |
20080199153 | Coding and Decoding Method and Device for Improving Video Error Concealment - A coding and decoding method and device for improving video error concealment is disclosed in the present invention. The coding method includes the steps of: obtaining a macro block smoothness information of a macro block in a video stream, which indicates whether the boundaries of the macro block are smooth or not; and coding the macro block smoothness information into a coded video stream. The decoding method includes the steps of: determining whether the boundaries of a lost macro block are smooth or not according to the macro block smoothness information of the lost macro block in a video stream; smoothing the displacing macro block for the lost macro block if the boundaries are smooth. The smoothed displacing macro block is more similar to the original macro block, thereby the whole image is more natural with a small coding cost but a highly improved image quality; further, the calculation amount thereof is small, and the cost to realize it is relatively low. | 08-21-2008 |
20080205852 | ENCODED DATA RECORDING APPARATUS AND MOBILE TERMINAL - In a mobile terminal provided with an encoded data recording function, there is assumed a condition in which a picture frame transmitted from the terminal of a communication partner is reproduced by means of decoding processing and is displayed on a LCD ( | 08-28-2008 |
20080226262 | TRANSMITTING AND RECORDING METHOD, REPRODUCING METHOD, AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS OF INFORMATION AND ITS RECORDING MEDIUM - A method of reproducing data from a recording medium, each of the data including reference time information indicating a reference time and including packet data, the method including: reproducing the data from the recording medium; obtaining a difference between respective reference times indicated by the reference time information of the reproduced adjacent data; rearranging the data on a time axis such that a time interval between adjacent data is equal to the obtained reference time difference; and outputting the rearranged data. | 09-18-2008 |
20080253743 | Digital Information Recording/Reproducing Apparatus - An apparatus for processing a transmitted digital signal including at least one of a video signal and an audio signal. The apparatus includes a receiver which receives the transmitted digital signal, wherein the transmitted digital signal includes a video signal which is bit-compressed, an audio signal which is bit-compressed, and an error correction signal added commonly to both the video signal and the audio signal, a demodulator which demodulates the received digital signal, and an error corrector which corrects an error of the digital signal demodulated by the demodulator. A first expander bit-expands the video signal of the digital signal corrected by the error corrector, a second expander bit-expands the audio signal of the digital signal corrected by the error corrector. | 10-16-2008 |
20080253744 | VIDEO RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Some embodiments of the present invention provide a video recording and reproducing apparatus capable of obtaining a video content, recording the video content in a recording unit, and executing an up-converting process on the recorded video content, the video recording and reproducing apparatus comprising a selecting unit configured to select a video content, a retrieving unit configured to retrieve specification information for the video content selected by the selecting unit, and a determining unit configured to determine whether or not to provide a user with a notification that inquires about whether or not to execute an up-converting process on the video content in accordance with the specification information retrieved by the retrieving unit. | 10-16-2008 |
20080267589 | TELEVISION BANDWIDTH OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods and apparatuses for reducing network bandwidth utilization in TV broadcasting networks are provided. More specifically, the network bandwidth may be reduced by determining that an image will be displayed at smaller than full size on a display apparatus and in response to determining the image will be displayed at a smaller than usual size, reducing the resolution associated with the image. A reduction in the resolution associated with the image results in a reduction of the amount of network bandwidth required to transmit the image across the network. | 10-30-2008 |
20080292275 | Detecting method and system of compression-related noise levels - A detecting system and method of compression-related noise levels is provided to produce a compressed index of an image. A line buffer temporarily stores a pixel (i, j) and neighboring pixels. An edge filter calculates an edge index for the pixel (i, j). A line filter calculates a line index for the pixel (i, j). A first determination device produces an edge signal according to the edge index and the line index for indicating whether the pixel (i, j) locates at an edge. A first buffer temporarily stores edge signals of the pixel (i, j) and left and right pixels. A second buffer temporarily stores line indexes of the pixel (i, j) and associated pixels. A second determination device produces a ringing signal for the pixel (i, j) according to the edge signals temporarily stored in the first buffer and the line indexes temporarily stored in the second buffer. | 11-27-2008 |
20080317438 | VIDEO AND AUDIO REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - The video and audio reproduction apparatus according to the present invention is a video and audio reproduction apparatus that decodes a video and audio stream and reproduces the decoded video and audio stream and that includes a reconstructing unit which reconstructs a packet in an inputted video and audio stream; a decoding unit which decodes the video and audio stream having the reconstructed packet, the video and audio stream being received from the reconstructing unit; and an output unit which outputs the decoded video and audio stream, wherein, when the packet to be reconstructed contains a plurality of payloads in the inputted video and audio stream, the reconstructing unit reconstructs the packet in the video and audio stream so that each packet contains one payload. | 12-25-2008 |
20090003800 | Recasting Search Engine Results As A Motion Picture With Audio - Computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for recasting search engine results as a motion picture with audio. Embodiments include identifying a search engine query; providing to a search engine the query; receiving from the search engine the results of the query; retrieving a plurality of legacy web pages in dependence upon the results; identifying audio objects in the plurality of legacy web pages for audio rendering; identifying video objects in the plurality of legacy web pages for motion picture rendering; associating one or more of the video objects for motion picture rendering with one or more of the audio objects for audio rendering; determining in dependence upon the selected audio objects and video objects a duration for the motion picture; selecting audio events for rendering the audio objects identified for audio rendering; selecting motion picture video events for rendering the video objects identified for motion picture rendering; assigning the selected audio events and the selected motion picture video events to playback times for the motion picture; rendering, with the selected audio events at their assigned playback times, the audio content of the each of the audio objects identified for audio rendering; rendering, with the selected motion picture video events at their assigned playback times, the video content of the video objects identified for motion picture rendering; and recording in a multimedia file the rendered audio content and motion picture video content. | 01-01-2009 |
20090060459 | Recording Apparatus and Recording Method for Dual-Layer Recording Disk - When VOB recording has reached the vicinity of the end position P | 03-05-2009 |
20090060460 | TRANSMITTING AND RECORDING METHOD, REPRODUCING METHOD, AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS OF INFORMATION AND ITS RECORDING MEDIUM - A method of reproducing data from a recording medium, each of the data including reference time information indicating a reference time and including packet data, the method including: reproducing the data from the recording medium; obtaining a difference between respective reference times indicated by the reference time information of the reproduced adjacent data; rearranging the data on a time axis such that a time interval between adjacent data is equal to the obtained reference time difference; and outputting the rearranged data. | 03-05-2009 |
20090060461 | TRANSMITTING AND RECORDING METHOD, REPRODUCING METHOD, AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS OF INFORMATION AND ITS RECORDING MEDIUM - A method of reproducing data from a recording medium, each of the data including reference time information indicating a reference time and including packet data, the method including: reproducing the data from the recording medium; obtaining a difference between respective reference times indicated by the reference time information of the reproduced adjacent data; rearranging the data on a time axis such that a time interval between adjacent data is equal to the obtained reference time difference; and outputting the rearranged data. | 03-05-2009 |
20090060462 | RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, AND SERVER APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a recording apparatus includes a receiving section which receives a stream and address information indicating an encryption target region of the stream, and a recording section which records the stream on each sector of a recording medium and records management information on a sector header of the sector where data on the encryption target region is recorded. | 03-05-2009 |
20090067814 | Recording Device - A television video recorder apparatus is provided which is capable of generating a moving picture file reproducible in user's intended video quality and volume on a mobile terminal apparatus. The television video recorder apparatus extracts encoding condition information from a memory card in which a first moving picture file encoded under predetermined encoding conditions and having the encoding conditions is stored, and stores the extracted encoding condition information in a rewritable ROM. Next, the television video recorder apparatus sets the encoding conditions on the basis of the encoding condition information stored in the rewritable ROM, generates a second moving picture file by encoding a video signal and an audio signal to be recorded in accordance with the set encoding conditions, and stores the generated second moving picture file in the memory card. | 03-12-2009 |
20090087166 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - For reproduction of transport stream (TS) from a recording medium, it is necessary to control the reproduction so as not to overflow the decoder buffer at the time of starting the reproduction and or when switching to the normal reproduction from special reproduction. At the times of starting the TS reproduction from a recording medium and switching between the normal reproduction and the special reproduction, selection is made as appropriate between a reproduction technique which performs stream output with timing similar to the input timing used for recording, and another reproduction technique which monitors data amount stored up in a decoder buffer and controls stream output in accordance with the controlled data amount. | 04-02-2009 |
20090092376 | VIDEO REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - There is provided a video reproduction apparatus which reduces memory areas for storing video data of decoded bidirectional predictive frames, which apparatus can output the decoded video signals of the entire fields even when all the video signals are outputted by the reproduction in the temporally reverse-direction or the reproduction of searching for arbitrary pictures. | 04-09-2009 |
20090092377 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONDENSED IMAGE RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION - A method for reproducing image data in a recording medium, and including selecting one or more camera digital data streams for reproduction, the one or more camera digital data stream including intra coded image data and/or predictive coded image data, the intra coded image data is capable of being a reference image for decoding the predictive coded image data, the predictive coded image data includes identifying information for identifying the reference image among images and is capable of being decoded based on the identified reference image by the identifying information, and decoding and reproducing the one or more camera digital data streams based on the selection. | 04-09-2009 |
20090116819 | MULTIPLEXING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - To provide a multiplexing method which facilitates a reproduction process and reduces unpleasantness felt by a viewer about image quality. | 05-07-2009 |
20090142038 | Compressed coded data playback apparatus, and decoding/playback method of compressed coded data in the same apparatus - A playback control section | 06-04-2009 |
20090142039 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING VIDEO DATA - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for recording video data. The method for recording video data in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes displaying a plurality of still images having different qualities along with quality information on each still image on a screen, and if a still image is selected from among the plurality of still images displayed on the screen, recording input video data at a quality corresponding to the selected still image. Therefore, a user easily compares video-data qualities according to a plurality of recording qualities with one another, and correctly selects a desired recording quality from among the plurality of recording qualities. | 06-04-2009 |
20090148132 | INFERENTIAL PROCESSING TO ASCERTAIN PLURAL LEVELS OF PICTURE INTERDEPENDENCIES - Systems and methods that receive a video stream comprising a sequence of compressed pictures, the compressed pictures comprising a plurality of levels of picture importance including a first picture level and a second picture level, track the compressed pictures to ascertain which of the compressed pictures correspond to the first level, and responsive to ascertaining which of the compressed pictures correspond to the first level, tracking the compressed pictures to ascertain which of the compressed pictures correspond to the second level. | 06-11-2009 |
20090175597 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS, REPRODUCING SYSTEM, REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - There are provided a reproducing apparatus, a reproducing system, a reproducing method, and a recording medium that prevent deterioration in a subjective appraisal value of an output frame. Therefore, in the case where when interpolation is impossible for a frame whose abnormality is confirmed among frames obtained by decoding image data, an already output frame is maintained until a normal frame can be output. | 07-09-2009 |
20090180761 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING HIGH FRAME RATE VIDEO, REPLAYING SLOW-MOTION AND REPLAYING NORMAL SPEED WITH AUDIO-VIDEO SYNCHRONIZATION - A method to record high frame rate video, compatible with existing industry standards, that permits selecting either slow-motion playback or true speed playback with synchronized audio. | 07-16-2009 |
20090202228 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT OR USE IN PLAYBACK APPARATUS - An integrated circuit includes a storage that stores a module that has a function of a virtual machine for executing an application recorded on a recording medium. The integrated circuit also includes a central processing unit that executes the module to cause the virtual machine to function and a decoder, that is distinct from the central processing unit, that decodes a video stream and an audio stream that are included in digital streams stored on a recording media. When the central processing unit executes the module, a package manager manages status information of the digital streams. If at least one of the digital streams is in an enable status, the decoder decodes the digital stream. When the decoder decodes the digital stream, the package manager changes the status information of another digital stream to an enable status or a disable status according to a request from the application. | 08-13-2009 |
20090232479 | Video data reproducing apparatus, video data generating apparatus and recording meduim - To provide a video data reproducing apparatus or the like, which includes: a flag reader | 09-17-2009 |
20090257736 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a data capturing unit controlling a recording medium containing video data and capturing encoding target data; a characteristic extraction unit receiving the encoding target data and extracting a characteristic point, at least including a dividable point, of the encoding target data as a preprocess for encoding; a storage unit storing the encoding target data; a memory unit storing information about the characteristic point extracted by the characteristic extraction unit; a dividing unit dividing the encoding target data into predetermined pieces of divided data; and encoding units encoding the divided data into divided encoded data. The dividing unit determines a dividing point, at which the encoding target data are substantially equally allocatable to the encoding units, on the basis of the total number of the encoding units and the information about the characteristic point, and then allocates the divided data to the encoding units. | 10-15-2009 |
20090257737 | METHOD OF PRESENTING AUXILIARY DATA FOR AN INTERACTIVE RECORDING MEDIUM - A method of presenting auxiliary data for an interactive recording medium is disclosed. In an interactive recording medium reproducing apparatus that reproduces A/V data and contents data recorded on an interactive recording medium and contents data provided by a contents providing server, the contents data provided by the contents providing server is presented appropriately according to the attributes of the contents data by using attribute information for the contents data. | 10-15-2009 |
20090263108 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - In an information processing apparatus, an encoded data joiner joins divided and encoded data generated as a result of division-encoding target data that has been divided into a plurality of intervals at a predetermined number of division points. A decoder then decompresses the data generated by the encoded data joiner, and a re-encoder re-encodes the decoded data generated by the decoder. The re-encoder re-encodes the decoded data over just the minimum number of division point intervals containing data portions to be altered, thereby efficiently re-compressing data that has been altered. | 10-22-2009 |
20090290855 | Apparatus And Method For Recording Video Data - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of recording a video data stream formed of key frames interposed by a plurality of delta frames, comprising decoding received video frames, determining whether a received key frame is available to form an initial key frame of stored video data and, if not, generating the initial key frame from one or more decoded video frames, and storing the initial key frame and subsequent received video frames. | 11-26-2009 |
20090304360 | RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND RECORDING SYSTEM - A control unit of a recording apparatus determines a transfer mode of content data by an external device, re-encodes the content data by a re-encoding unit and records the re-encoded content data in a recording unit if the determined transfer mode is a first transfer mode with which the re-encoding unit is compatible, and records the content data in the recording unit, re-encodes the content data read out from the recording unit by the re-encoding unit, and re-records the re-encoded content data in the recording unit if the determined transfer mode is a second transfer mode with which the re-encoding unit is not compatible. | 12-10-2009 |
20090310942 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING VIDEO IMAGE - An information processing apparatus includes: a stream data separating module configured to separate compressed video data and compressed sub-picture data from compressed stream data; a memory configured to store the compressed video data and the compressed sub-picture data; a first conversion processing module configured to up-convert the compressed video data being read out from the memory and decoded into converted video data containing high definition video image; a second conversion processing module configured to up-convert the compressed sub-picture data being read out from the memory and decoded into converted sub-picture data containing high definition sub-picture image; and a rendering module configured to combine the converted video data with the converted sub-picture data to generate combined data. | 12-17-2009 |
20100021141 | PLAY BACK APPARATUS, PLAYBACK METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR PLAYING BACK 3D VIDEO - The playback apparatus realizes stereoscopic viewing by overlaying planar or stereoscopic graphics over stereoscopic video in a way that reduces eye strain using following method in abstract: A graphics plane holds therein data composed of graphics data. A shift engine shifts, in a case when a composition unit composites the graphics data with a left-view video frame, coordinates of each of the pixels is shifted in a first horizontal direction, and in a case when the composition unit composites the graphics data with a right-view video frame, coordinates of each of the pixels is shifted in a second horizontal direction that is opposite to the first direction. | 01-28-2010 |
20100021142 | MOVING PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, VIDEO DEVICE, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD - A moving picture decoding device according to the present invention includes: a determination unit configured to determine the header information and the compressed image data in the stream; a header information storage unit configured to temporarily store the header information determined by the determination unit; a header address storage unit configured to store a header end address indicating an end of header information in a picture, the header end address being an address of the header information storage unit; a compressed image storage unit configured to temporarily store the compressed image data determined by the determination unit; an image address storage unit configured to store an image end address indicating an end of compressed image data in the picture, the image end address being an address of the compressed image storage unit; a header analysis unit configured to analyze the header information for each picture, based on the header end address; and a decoding unit configured to decode the compressed image data for each picture, based on the image end address and a result of the analysis by the header analysis unit, wherein the header analysis unit is configured to analyze header information of a picture immediately after the picture being decoded by the decoding unit. | 01-28-2010 |
20100021143 | PICTURE CODING APPARATUS AND PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS - A picture coding apparatus which generates a stream so as to be able to decode a picture by obtaining a picture parameter set necessary for decoding the picture even at the time of trick-play, the apparatus including: a slice coding unit which codes the picture and generates coded data; a picture parameter set (PPS) generation unit which generates sequence parameter set (SPS); a PPS generation unit which generates the PPS; and an access unit (AU) determination unit which stores pieces of coded data respectively into access units of a random access unit (RAU) and stores the SPS into a first AU, and stores the PPS into the first AU or into the AU in which one piece of the coded data that refers to the PPS is stored. | 01-28-2010 |
20100027973 | IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND METHOD CAPABLE OF PERFORMING ONLINE COLOR SPACE CONVERSION - An image processing circuit includes: a video decoder for decoding at least one block image source to generate first decoded data, where the block image source and the first decoded data correspond to a first color space; a color space converting unit, coupled to the video decoder, for performing color space conversion on the first decoded data to generate second decoded data, where the second decoded data corresponds to a second color space; a block based scaling unit, coupled to the color space converting unit, for performing a scaling operation on the second decoded data to generate scaled data, where the scaled data corresponds to the second color space; and a frame buffer, coupled to the block based scaling unit, for temporarily storing the scaled data, where the scaled data temporarily stored in the frame buffer is utilized in the second color space. | 02-04-2010 |
20100034520 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING PICTURES FOR VIDEO COMPRESSION WITH CONTENT-ADAPTIVE RESOLUTION - An apparatus and method for compressing a video in a video processing system include an adaptive video analyzing apparatus and method for compressing a video after determining a resolution per each frame or group of frames of the video. The adaptive video analyzing apparatus may include an analyzing part to determine the resolution in accordance with a pre-determined standard, and a compressing part to compress the video based on the determined resolution. | 02-11-2010 |
20100040350 | PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE PLAYBACK APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a playback apparatus includes a multimedia processor having a decoding circuit to decode encoded video data and an arithmetic module configured to execute high pixel conversion for increasing a quantity of pixels of the decoded video data, a decoding module configured to decode the encoded video data, an issuing module configured to issue a changeover request for changing over between execution and non-execution of the high pixel conversion, and a changeover module configured to change over a providing destination of the encoded video data from any one of the multimedia processor and the decoding module to the other one thereof such that a picture group structure which is a unit for controlling the encoded video data is not divided, in response to the changeover request issued by the issuing module. | 02-18-2010 |
20100040351 | MOVING IMAGE CODING METHOD, MOVING IMAGE CODING DEVICE, MOVING IMAGE RECORDING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, MOVING IMAGE PLAYBACK METHOD, MOVING IMAGE PLAYBACK DEVICE, AND MOVING IMAGE PLAYBACK SYSTEM - A moving image coding method that can prevent playback discontinuity without an increase in processing load during playback is provided. | 02-18-2010 |
20100061707 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - In a high speed image capturing state, a camera signal processing circuit is not needed to perform a signal process at a high screen rate, but at a regular screen rate. In the high speed image capturing mode, raw data of 240 fps received from an image sensor | 03-11-2010 |
20100067880 | MOVING-IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND MOVING-IMAGE REPRODUCING METHOD - A moving-image reproducing apparatus determines whether one frame of a movie has the same image as that of the previous frame on the basis of the analysis of the movie, inputs compressed frame data about a frame that is not determined to have the same image as that of the previous frame into a decompressing unit, causes the image in the frame data decompressed by the decompressing unit to be displayed as at least one frame, and causes the compressed frame data about a frame that is determined to have the same image as that of the previous frame not to be input into the decompressing unit. | 03-18-2010 |
20100074595 | Contents Reproducing Apparatus and Contents Reproducing Method - For providing a mechanism of contents reproducing equipment, for operating a communicating device and a decoding device, which are provided in each of equipments connected therewith through a network, in cooperation with each other, so as to enable to change from a reproducing process, which is relatively low in processing capacity required, to a reproducing process, which is relatively high, reproduction is conducted of the contents, which is low in the processing capacity required for reproduction, with using the communicating means and the decoding means, which are lower in the processing capacity. In parallel therewith, reproduction is conducted of contents, which is high in the processing capacity required for reproduction, with using the communicating means and the decoding means, which are higher in the processing capacity thereof. Also, measurement is done on a processing time necessary for receiving and decoding of encoded contents for a unit of time, or a processing volume of the receiving process and the decoding process of the encoded contents, which can be processed during the unit of time, and thereby managing it as the processing capacity. | 03-25-2010 |
20100074596 | VIDEO DATA PROCESSOR AND VIDEO DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A video data processor and a video data processing method which uses hardware resources efficiently even when a plurality of processing occurs to video data are performed in parallel is provided. The video data read from a recording medium in playback processing, editing processing, duplication processing, and other process that may be accomplished upon video is outputted to either of two lines by distributor | 03-25-2010 |
20100119214 | VIDEO RECORDING APPARATUS, MULTIPLEXING METHOD, PICTURE ENCODING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR VARIABLE FRAME-RATE RECORDING - A video recording apparatus provides a slow motion effect or a quick motion effect by digitally converting the frame-rate instead of by changing the playback speed of the film, and using few recording media without requiring any special device at playing. A picture encoding part encodes only valid frames by changing a rate-controlling method so that a predetermined playing frame-rate is obtained at a standard data-rate at playing. And a TS multiplexing part multiplexes by converting a frequency of a standard STC clock by only a ratio of valid frame-rate and playing frame-rate, and generating values for PCR, PTS, and DTS. | 05-13-2010 |
20100129062 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CONTENT REPRODUCING METHOD, AND CONTENT DECODING METHOD - [Object] To promptly decode and reproduce content of any encoding formats. | 05-27-2010 |
20100129063 | Recording Multimedia Data - According to the described techniques, apparatus and systems, a multimedia data processing device can include an input unit to receive media data from input devices. A data compression and information generating unit can compress the received media data and generate information based on the received media data. A buffer can temporarily store the compressed media data and generated information received from the data compression and information generating unit as a packet that includes a data packet and an information packet; output the temporarily stored media data packet and the information packet to be stored in an external storage device; and store a file offset that identifies a location of the information packet stored in the external storage device. A file format generating unit can generate a media data file format based on the information packet stored in the external storage device identified by the file offset stored in the buffer. | 05-27-2010 |
20100135642 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AVAILABLE VIDEO PLAY TIMES BASED ON REMAINING BATTERY CAPACITY - A apparatus and method for displaying available video play times are provided. Information about a remaining battery capacity of a video playing apparatus and information about a resolution of a video file is received from a first signal input unit, and information contained in a codec-resolution mapping table is received from a second signal input unit. Available video play times associated with video decoding modes are acquired based on the information received from the first signal input unit and the information received from the second signal input unit. | 06-03-2010 |
20100178037 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, VIDEO GENERATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD THEREOF - A video generation apparatus for processing a video source to generate a video stream supplied to a display apparatus comprises: a buffer and a scaler. The buffer is capable of storing scaling reference lines retrieved from the video source. The scaler is used for generating scaled lines based on the scaling reference lines stored in the buffer, wherein the scaled lines are used in the video stream supplied to the display apparatus, and an input line period length of the scaler receiving the video source and an output line period length of the scaler supplying the video stream to the display apparatus are the same. Valid scaled lines generated for each frame by the scaler is less than a total number of output line periods for each frame of the video stream. | 07-15-2010 |
20100178038 | VIDEO PLAYER - A video player including a memory, a video decoder and a frame rate converter. The video decoder decodes a video bitstream to output decoded video to the memory and output first motion vector information encoded in the video bitstream. The frame rate converter, coupled to the video decoder, receives the first motion vector information and performs the frame rate conversion on the decoded video from the memory to generate a frame-rate converted video for display according to the first motion vector information. | 07-15-2010 |
20100178039 | VIDEO AND AUDIO PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND VIDEO AND AUDIO PLAYBACK METHOD - A video and audio playback apparatus which generate a video and an audio at high-speed in accordance with the respective characteristics is provided. The apparatus plays back a video/audio data having a first video data encoded by an intra-frame encoding, a second video data encoded by an inter-frame prediction encoding and an audio data corresponding to the video frame of the first video data or the second video frame. The apparatus includes a deciding unit to determine a first rate, a second rate and a number of times; a first extraction unit to extract the first video data from the video/audio data at the first rate; a second extraction unit to extract the audio data from the video/audio data at the second rate; a playback unit to play back the first video data the number of times; and an audio playback unit to play back the audio data. | 07-15-2010 |
20100183285 | Fast Channel Change In A Digital Television Receiver - A multiple-tuner digital video storage device, providing live-pause television program viewing from digital television program data recorded on a storage device, reduces channel change delay when changing digital television channels. The digital video storage device processes and stores video data from a digital television channel to which a channel change is expected (predicted) concurrent with storing video data from a digital television channel that is currently selected. The digital video storage device substantially simultaneously reads the stored video data for the currently selected digital television channel and the predicted digital television channel, and decodes the video data of the currently selected digital television channel for presentation to a Decoding display associated with the digital video storage device. Upon receipt of a channel change request for the predicted digital television channel, the digital video storage device starts decoding the read video data of the predicted digital television channel for presentation to the display. | 07-22-2010 |
20100195986 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING - A system and method for processing image signals, including a signal dividing unit for dividing input image signals per frame into a first plurality of sub-blocks with a second plurality of the sub-blocks being included in the horizontal direction and each of the sub-blocks having the height equal to that of at least one macro-block, a recording unit for recording thus divided input image signals, a third plurality of encoding units each for encoding the divided and recorded input image signals in units of sub-block to be outputted as an encoded stream with the number of the encoding units equal to that of the sub-blocks in the horizontal direction, a further recording unit for recording the encoded stream in units of sub-block, and a stream conversion unit for outputting a video stream after rearranging the order of the encoded and recorded stream. | 08-05-2010 |
20100232768 | RECORDING DEVICE, REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND METHOD - A video encoder ( | 09-16-2010 |
20100254682 | IMAGE CODER, VIDEO CAMERA, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND IMAGE CODING METHOD - An image coder with a pre-record function includes a coding unit ( | 10-07-2010 |
20100260486 | Apparatus, System and Method for Recording a Multi-View Video and Processing Pictures, and Decoding Method - An apparatus, a system, and a method for recording a multi-view video and processing pictures, and a decoding method are disclosed. The apparatus for recording a multi-view video and processing pictures includes a video recording unit, a collecting unit, a selecting unit, and an encoding unit, which are connected in sequence. The video recording unit is configured to record a video including recording a multi-view video, and output 3D video data. The collecting unit is configured to collect 3D video data output by the video recording unit. The selecting unit is configured to select at least one channel of data among the 3D video data. The encoding unit is configured to encode data including encoding the 3D video data selected by the selecting unit. | 10-14-2010 |
20100272418 | Electronic device and content reproducing method and program - An electronic device includes a communication block configured to execute communication with an external device; a storage block configured to store content; a compression block configured to compress the stored content; a reproduction block configured to reproduce one of the content before compression by the compression block and the content after compression by the compression block; an operation input block configured to enter an operation signal corresponding to a user operation done for the reproduction; and control block configured to control the communication block to transmit the content before compression to the external device for storage therein and, if the operation signal for reproducing the content after compression is entered, receive, the content before compression stored in the external device corresponding to the content after compression from the external device. | 10-28-2010 |
20100278508 | Method and system for scalable multi-user interactive visualization - A scalable method and apparatus is described to provide personalized interactive visualization of a plurality of compressed image data to a plurality of concurrent users. A plurality of image sources are digitally processed in the compressed domain to provide controllable enhanced user-specific interactive visualization with support for adjustment in viewing parameters such frame-rate, field of view, resolution, color format, viewpoint and bandwidth. | 11-04-2010 |
386110000 | Line, field, or frame skipping | 1 |
20090285564 | Reproduction device, reproduction method, and program - The present invention relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a program that enable the maintenance of real-time production of encoded video signals while suppressing a visually bad impression. As shown in FIG. | 11-19-2009 |
386111000 | Intraframe or interframe | 7 |
20080285955 | METHOD FOR LOW DATA RATE VIDEO IMAGE STORAGE - A method for low data rate video image storage is disclosed in the present invention, comprising following steps: capturing a video image; comparing the video image with a specific video image by a specific comparison solution, to generate a comparison result; based on the comparison result keeping stable without change in a period of time, forming a minified video image and storing the minified video image. | 11-20-2008 |
20090110371 | VIDEO REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, VIDEO REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND VIDEO REPRODUCTION PROCESS PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, for each GOP, frames from an I frame present at a leading position of GOP to an I frame contained in a succeeding GOP and B frames referencing the I frame contained in the succeeding GOP are managed as a new GOP. For each new GOP, video frames from a leading I frame to a last I frame are subjected to a decoding process in order of increasing PTS value. For each new GOP with the last I frame of the video frames discarded, the video frames are subjected to video display in order of decreasing PTS value. | 04-30-2009 |
20090142040 | Method and device for recording of frames - The invention is related to a method and a device for recording of frames. | 06-04-2009 |
20090180762 | INFORMATION DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A signal processing apparatus of a configuration capable of requesting a transmission of an information file including the currently received information data in response to an instruction for starting a recording in the course of reception of information data transmitted from a transmitting apparatus and decoding of the information data by a decoder, and receiving the information file transmitted from the transmitting apparatus in response to the transmission request, while suspending the decoding process by the decoder. | 07-16-2009 |
20090279870 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONDENSED IMAGE RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION - A method for decoding coded image data, and which includes determining whether a property type of an image data is a first coding type or a second coding type, in which the first coding type of the image data includes identifier information of a reference image for specifying the reference image among previous images, and the second coding type of the image data does not include the identifier information of the reference image, detecting the reference image based on the identifier information for the first coding type of the image data, obtaining moving vector information related to the reference image, and decoding the first coding type of the image data based on the detected reference image and the obtained moving vector information, and decoding the second coding type of the image data based on the image data itself. | 11-12-2009 |
20100111503 | OPTICAL DISK FOR HIGH RESOLUTION AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO RECORDING, OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND OPTICAL DISK RECORDING APPARATUS - The present invention has an objective of providing an optical disk having a high resolution picture and a system for reproducing data on the optical disk, which are compatible with a conventional system for reproducing an ordinary resolution picture. A high resolution signal is divided into a main signal and a sub signal by picture division means and MPEG-encoded. The main signal and the sub signal are divided into frames each having 1 GOP or more. The resultant first interleave block | 05-06-2010 |
20100124408 | Image Converter, Image Reproducer, Image Conversion/Reproduction System, and Recording Medium - An image converter includes an image converting unit and a determining unit. The image converting unit acquires frame image groups each including one or more frame images from original image data, and outputs the frame image(s) of each acquired group, converting its/their image quality based on determination by the determining unit, generating foreign-device-use image data including the frame image groups including the frame image(s). The determining unit determines necessity of first-image-quality retention of the frame image(s) of each group based on whether it/they satisfies/satisfy a condition. The image converting unit outputs the frame image(s) of the group at the first image quality if it/they is/are determined by the determining unit as necessary to retain at the first image quality, or a second image quality if determined as unnecessary to retain at the first image quality. | 05-20-2010 |
386112000 | Digital compressing | 12 |
20080310824 | Method and device for encoding video levels into subfield code words - The invention relates to a method and a device for encoding the video level of a pixel of a picture into a subfield code word in a display device. It can be applied to every display device using a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) technology and subfields for displaying video picture. The bits of the subfield code word are computed recursively one after the other from the bit having the most significant weight to the bit having the least significant weight. According to the invention, for determining the state of a bit of the subfield code word, a first threshold and a second threshold is associated with said bit, said second threshold being greater than said first threshold, and the video level to be encoded by this bit and its following bits in the subfield code word are compared to the first and second thresholds. If the video level is lower than the first threshold, a state “OFF” is allocated to the bit. If the video level is greater than the second threshold, a state “ON” is allocated to the bit and if the video level is lying between the first and second thresholds, a state “ON” is allocated to the bit according to a predetermined criteria. | 12-18-2008 |
20090041429 | Image recording apparatus and method, and program - The present invention relates to an image recording apparatus and method, and a program for improving usability by removing operational constraints on combinations of an aspect ratio of a recorded moving image and a horizontal resolution from users while the compliance with the DVD-Video standard is strictly maintained. When an aspect ratio is 16:9 in a state that an LP mode is selected, a horizontal×vertical resolution is set to 720×480. When the aspect ratio is 4:3 in a state that the LP mode is selected, the horizontal×vertical resolution is set to 352×480. When an HQ or SQ mode is selected, the horizontal×vertical resolution is set to 720×480 irrespective of the aspect ratio. Accordingly, the image recording apparatus can encode a moving image and record the encoded image onto a DVD | 02-12-2009 |
20090041430 | Recording apparatus and recording method, playback apparatus and playback method, recording/playback apparatus and recording/playback method, and program - The present invention relates to a recoding apparatus and a recording method, a playback apparatus and a playback method, a recording/playback apparatus and a recording/playback method, and a program, whereby processing relating to a file can be readily performed. With a video camera wherein with regard to H.264/AVC for example, which is a coding method arranged to encode or decode data, a codec class arranged to classify the performance of a codec configured to encode or decode data, and a codec level serving as a group of said one or more codec classes whose upper compatibility is ensured, are based on stipulated specifications, data is encoded into, for example, coded data of a codec class # | 02-12-2009 |
20090046994 | DIGITAL TELEVISION BROADCAST RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND REPRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - The digital television broadcast recording and reproduction apparatus includes: a control unit which manages selection of either normal reproduction or digest reproduction; a decoding unit which, in the normal reproduction, generates decoded data of all pictures and their Presentation Time Stamps (PTSs), and in the digest reproduction, generates decoded data of some of the pictures and their PTSs; a catch-up detecting unit which calculates, in the digest reproduction, a difference value between one of the PTSs and a broadcast time, calculates a catch-up time at which the digest reproduction catches up with the current broadcast, sends, in the case of judging that a PTS of a next picture will overtake the current broadcast, a signal to the decoding unit indicating the judgment, and sends a catch-up signal to the control unit when the catch-up time matches the broadcast time. The control unit starts the normal reproduction upon reception of the catch-up signal. | 02-19-2009 |
20090060463 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A recording/playback apparatus externally acquires an uncompressed digital video signal. The recording/playback apparatus includes a compression unit that compresses the uncompressed digital video signal frame-by-frame to generate compressed video data, and a record unit that, in accordance with a predetermined selection method for selecting which of the compressed video data and uncompressed video data of the uncompressed digital video signal to record, successively selects a piece of the compressed video data or the uncompressed video data, adds time information to a predetermined unit of the selected video data piece to indicate a display timing thereof, and records the selected video data piece to the recording medium, whether the selected video data piece is compressed or uncompressed being identifiable. | 03-05-2009 |
20090136209 | Recording device, system, integrated circuit, program, and recording method - To provide a system that can minimize a time delay caused by one device being unable to access a recording medium until access by another device ends, when transcoding is performed by distributed processing. A main device performs transcoding of each coded piece allocated to itself from among a plurality of coded pieces of a digital stream, and writing of a transcoding result onto the recording medium, in a pipeline. While the recording device is performing the transcoding and the writing, an auxiliary device transcodes each coded piece allocated to itself one by one. Having completed the transcoding of all coded pieces allocated to itself, the auxiliary device transmits its transcoding results to the recording device and has the recording device write the transcoding results onto the recording medium which is a copy destination. | 05-28-2009 |
20090202229 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program - An apparatus and a method for performing a data recording process that permits seamless playing are provided. An information processing apparatus such as a video camera records data in a manner that permits contents having discontinued recording timings to be played in a seamless fashion. To this end, the information processing apparatus acquires seamless information of a preceding record content to be applied to a recording process of a subsequent record content, and records the seamless information in a record file defined by a record format. For example, the seamless information is recorded in a clip information file. The seamless information remains recorded on an information recording medium as long as the content recorded on the information recording medium remains undeleted. The information processing apparatus can thus read and use the seamless information at any time. With this arrangement, the seamless information is reliably acquired and contents are always recorded in a manner that permits seamless playing. | 08-13-2009 |
20090252482 | Method for Encoding the Flag of the Image - The present invention discloses a method for encoding a flag of an image while encoding an I Frame, firstly setting a start code of an I Frame picture to be coded, for marking a start of the I Frame; setting a flag for indicating whether to code an identification field; judging the set flag, and if the flag indicates to encode the identification field of time and control code of a video tape recorder, encoding the identification field of time and control code of the video tape recorder, otherwise, not encoding the identification field of time and control code of the video tape recorder. In the present invention, the start code is added into the prediction picture header for marking the start of one frame picture data, as well as identifying whether there is the time_code identification field in the picture by the flag information of the time_code identification field, which can realize the objective of identifying the time_code identification field, and avoid encoding additional identification information, therefore it improves coding efficiency, and can be applied to all kinds of video/audio technical standards. | 10-08-2009 |
20090274446 | STREAM DATA GENERATION METHOD AND PARTIAL ERASE PROCESSING METHOD - Stream data has a recording data structure formed in units of stream blocks (or stream object units SOBU) which are segmented to have a predetermined data size. Data are recorded (or encoded) and partially erased (or temporarily erased) in units of the stream blocks (SOBUs). | 11-05-2009 |
20090279871 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes an image pickup circuit having a plurality of photographic modes, such as television standards, a compression processing circuit for performing compression processing of an image pickup signal outputted from the image pickup circuit, the compression circuit having a plurality of compression modes, and a selecting circuit for selecting one of the compression modes of the compression processing circuit in accordance with a selected one of the photographic modes of the image pickup circuit. | 11-12-2009 |
20100092158 | RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORD MEDIUM - A recording apparatus for recording video data to a rewritable optical disc is disclosed, that comprises an encoding means for encoding video data corresponding to a compression-encoding process, a converting means for converting the data structure of the encoded video data received from the encoding means into a file structure that allows a moving picture to be synchronously reproduced by computer software without need to use specially dedicated hardware, and a recording means for recording data having the file structure to an optical disc, wherein the file structure has a first data unit and a second data unit, the second data unit being a set of the first data units, and wherein a plurality of the second data units is matched with a successive record length of which data is written to the optical disc. | 04-15-2010 |
20100239233 | Video Processing and Optical Recording - A combined digital TV decoding and optical recording system includes a transport stream demultiplexer to demultiplex at least one compressed multimedia stream from an MPEG transport stream having multiplexed compressed multimedia streams. A video encoder compresses a video stream to generate a second compressed video stream. A common system controller controls operations of the transport stream demultiplexer and the video encoder, and allocates portions of a memory to the transport stream demultiplexer and the MPEG video encoder based on respective memory requirements. | 09-23-2010 |